Yolo County Biographies
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CHARLES A. BROWN
Charles A. Brown, real estate, insurance and collection agent at
Woodland, was born in Lexington, Kentucky, December 29, 1839. His father, H.
C. F. Brown, was born near Harper�s Ferry, Virginia, and moved when he was a
small child to Ohio before it was a State; and when a young man he went to
Lexington, Kentucky, where he married Hannah Stainton, a native of that State.
He was a contractor and millwright by trade, and died in Kentucky in 18--. His
wife is still living in Bloomington, Illinois, at the advanced age of
seventy-eight years. In their family were six sons and four daughters, of whom
three sons are the only ones now living.
The subject of this sketch, the only member of the family in this
State, was raised in Lexington, and in 1855 he came to California, by way of
Atchison and Salt Lake, packing through the Sierra Nevadas, and arrived in
Sacramento August 2. After a residence of six or seven years at Grass Valley he
came to this county. He followed mining there and also in Tuolumne and Mariposa
counties. Most of the time since 1862 his home has been in Woodland. In 1864,
in the spring, he went to St. Helena, Napa County, and remained there about six
months; and was in Nevada during the mining excitement at Washoe, a year,
engaged in mining and other kinds of business. Most of the time in that State he
was Lake�s Bridge, where Reno now stands. For the past twelve or fifteen years
he has been engaged as already noted, being one of the most active citizens of
the place, thorough-going and reliable. Having been thrown upon his own
resources ever since he was sixteen years old, and constantly mingling with
strangers, he has obtained a practical education in the ways of the world.
Politically, Mr. Brown is a Democrat, and has been influential in
the various campaigns.
He was married in 1862 to Fannie M. Ingram, a native of Virginia,
and by that marriage were three children, of whom two daughters are now living.
The parents were separated by a divorce, and Mr. Brown, for his present wife,
married Clara Leman, a native of St. Louis, Missouri; she was born February 12,
1851. They have four children living and two deceased.
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler, July 2004.
SOURCE: Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis
Publishing Company, 1891. pg. 320-321